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Fed Policy Makers Saw ‘Substantial’ Risks to Economy (Update3)
Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve policy makers saw “substantial” risks to the slumping economy last month as they cut the benchmark interest rate to a record low and pledged to expand emergency loans if necessary.

S&P projects credit losses will rise into 2010
Credit ratings agency Standard & Poor's said Tuesday it expects nonperforming loans to continue to rise through 2009 and into 2010, forcing banks to add to reserves to cover losses.

More auto industry-linked businesses eligible for bailout
The U.S. Treasury threw the door open to taxpayer financing for more companies and industries by drafting broad guidelines on auto industry aid. The guidelines, published Wednesday, would let officials provide funds to any company they deem important to making or financing cars. That leaves room to provide money from the Troubled Asset Relief Program beyond loans already committed to General ...

S&P expects loan losses to rise in 2010 and bank failures to increase in 2009
Credit ratings agency Standard & Poor's said Tuesday it expects nonperforming loans to continue to rise through 2009 and into 2010,

Wall Street slips on telecom, financials
Stocks slipped on Monday as investors took profits from the strong gains of last week, while concerns about slowing wireless growth in 2009 weighed on large telecom and cable companies.

Banks’ ‘Catatonic Fear’ Means Consumers Don’t Get TARP Relief
Jan. 5 (Bloomberg) -- As the new owner of $172.5 billion of preferred shares and warrants in 208 U.S. financial institutions, the Treasury Department hasn’t succeeded in thawing frozen credit markets, leaving taxpayers propping up an industry that won’t lend to them.

(AFX UK Focus) 2009-01-05 18:33 US STOCKS-Wall St slips on telecom, financials; Apple jumps
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